When the sun rises in Chile, it has to scale hills and walls of rock before it reaches the peaks of the mountains. Because the Andes are everywhere, and yet they remain unknown territory to most of the country’s inhabitants. Patricio Guzmán sets out on a journey through the mountains, his usual somber narration accompanying elegant aerial shots of the mountain panorama. But his Andes are not just an impassive mountain range: the journey along its peaks also serves as a reconstruction of Chile’s history and an attempt at finding lost memory. After exploring the desert in Nostalgia for the Light and the sea in The Pearl Button, Guzmán concludes his personal Chilean trilogy with The Cordillera of Dreams.